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You do realize that Chris Roberts is probably every bit as rich as Richard Garriott right? Hell, Roberts directed his own movie(Wing Commander) and then opened his own Hollywood production company, Ascendant Pictures, which has put out several movies. I love Wing Commander and Privateer as...

Always loved getting new magazines when I worked at Gamestop. Rip the cover off of the previous months, return it for credit, and take the magazine home. Was basically a free subsciption to every good video game/PC mag back in the day(plus all the demo disks, back when that was big)...

I see a lot of recommendations to farm City of Sarn in Act 3, but what the hell do people do about the named guy Perpetus? No matter the difficulty, he ALWAYS kills me a couple times on softcore. Do you just avoid him? Goddamn etheral knives + beartrap unique is just absolutely brutal. I...

So for those of you that have spent a lot of time in Hardcore, what are some basic tips for progressing to end-game maps? I have multiple softcore characters in the high 60s/low 70s, but each have probably died 50+ times on the way there. Is the key to just grind levels so that you are...

Other HTC concern, has the battery life of their most recent phones been acceptable(on par with the Samsung phones)?. My god the battery life on the Evo phones was just absolutely atrocious. Loved the phone but I couldn't browse the web for 30 minutes without killing the battery from 100% to zero.

And then comes the breakdown of that whole theory, as all the healthy single people opt out of the group plan, and the cost of the plan rises. You can't have a well functioning group health plan with only sick people and huge families with lots of kids in it. you need those young single people...

Time Warner finally did something decent. After raising their speeds for their low-end internet plans last year (5mbps went to 10, 10 to 15, 15 to 20) , they finally adjusted their high-end plan speeds. I originally subscribed to their 30Mbps service a few years ago, as of the last week or two...

Cool Ranch has to be the absolute worst Dorito flavor. A bag of them smells like sweaty gym socks. Tastes about the same too.

Definitely any of the Black Isle RPGs, Baldrs Gate 1 & 2, Planescape, Icewind Dale. Their hand-drawn art styles don't look too shabby by todays standards(as long as you get a mod to up the resolution, so you aren't stuck playing in an 800x600 window). The Baldurs Gate and Planescape games have...

Thanks for that info, the FTP program I was using didn't support segmented downloading. Grabbed CuteFTP Pro and holy god is it fast. Regularly getting about 50Mbps downloads now. Just blazing fast.

It's a horrible conflict of interest. Game magazines and websites survive off of advertising from the game publishers, so they follow along with whatever stipulations those publishers put on them for reveiwing their products. Most magazines/sites will claim that advertisinig doesn't influence...

I haven't really been keeping up on cell phone news/tech the last several months, but I'm trying to catch up as I'm purchasing a new phone soon. Did anything ever come of the talk of the Nexus 4 actually having 4G built in but just disabled initially? I remember some articles hintng at it...

Anyone have any advice on building decent jewelry? I'm sorely in need of some ring upgrades for my maurader, but I seem to get totally boned on alch-orbing rings up to a rare item. I'll pick up an ilvl 49 iron ring off the ground, slap an alch orb on it, and get a level 19-24 ring. I've never...

For some reason I've been on an old-school Traveling Wilburys kick recently. There's never been a better super group. Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, & Jeff Lynne. You couldn't hardly piece together a better classic rock supergroup if you tried. Their first album is...

Also, how stable have the renters been? If you're turning the place over every other year and possibly going a month or two in-between with no rental income, that throws off all the numbers quite a bit.

Though traditionally, the video game/software industry has been different. It takes a *very* lenient retailer to give you a refund on a game that has been opened/played. That is what made me a customer of Babbage's/Software Etc way back in the day, they were one of the few retailers that would...

So basically, just vendor everything under level 60 as you get it now, unless you're saving it for an alt or something?

And since I have a job where I can obviously dick around on internet forums all day, I generally have plenty of time to figure out what I'm making for dinner during the afternoon at the office, and make a quick stop by the store on the way home if I need something we don't have. Works out well...

I cook out of necessity. I get home from work about 2 hours before my wife. If I left the cooking up to her, we wouldn't be eating dinner until after 8PM every night. I've grown to enjoy it though, I like trying different stuff all the time. We rarely repeat the same thing more often than...

I kinda compare it to wearing 3D glasses for watching a movie. It annoys the hell out of some people who don't like wearing glasses, and other people don't notice it at all after a few minutes. You are still focsued on the middle, primary monitor. You're just using the side monitors for...

Interesting article about 4K resolution(4096x2160) gaming benchmarking Titan vs Dual 7970s http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...arly-2013.aspx Not exactly all the cards you are asking about, but the general consensus is that multi-card setups have issues with a lot of games in very high...

BTW, Thanks for the torrentleach invite a_skeleton_03. Man, it's a lot harder to get ratio there than IPT. Downloaded Tomb Raider the day it released about a week ago just to build more ratio with both. 9.9 gig download, the IPT download has a share ratio of like 8:1 now, I've uploaded almost...

With *most* companies that I'm familiar with, if you are legally married, and you have a child, you have to all go on a family plan. I.e. If she chooses the "family" enrollment option with her employer it is going to cover her, her spouse, and the child. I don't think you can opt-out the...

I've been playing PoE since beta back in October last year off and on, but I've always been a mostly solo player, except playing with a couple close friends occasionally. I'm trying to currently set up a build that is going to require gems that I don't have access to on my Shadow, they are...

Are games actually saving yet? Played the first night, and nothing saved when I logged on the next day. Couldn't log on the 2nd night, and then started over the third night, played for like 8 hours, and once again my city/region was gone the next day(all private games with private invites sent...

Sounds like your TV can't convert digital audio(HDMI) to analog audio(red/white cables), basically it's not converting digital audio from the XBOX into an analog signal to pass on to the ramp/speakers. This is what a stereo/surround receiver generally does. You'd want all of your audio...

I've found Kripp's new site to be pretty useful for planning out builds http://www.exilepro.com/builds Basically I've picked out a few builds that looked like fun to me to play, and in reading all of their build analysis they give you a good breakdown of how you should be planning your...

That list mkopec put together is damn near exactly my PC that I built about 4 months ago, but I have an Intel SSD instead of a Samsung SSD, but both are great brands regardless. Very good starting point, and like what has been mentioned here a ton, get your processor+mobo in-store at...

Watched a documentary on Garriott a while back. He had a spot booked on the original russian space flight in the early 2000s, but the dotcom crash of the late 90s damn near broke him, and he had to sell his seat to someone else. Obviouslly he made some money back and was able to buy a seat a...

Anyone else having problems with shared resources within a region last night? Me and a couple friends were playing and while everything worked fine initially, later at night shared resources just absolutely stopped updating. We had one town that had the power plants with like a 450MW surplus...

I'm not saying absolutely don't get married if you are young, I'm saying that if you can do it by being smart and reasonable and staying within your financial means then you are probably responsible enough to handle marriage and all it entails, whether you're 18, 30, 50, or whatever. If you're...

Wel, you kind of have a decision to make. Do you want to spend $200 on a new video card that might get that PC to be serviceable for another year, maybe year and a half while you game with most settings on low to medium, or would you rather spend $700-$800 for an all new system that would be...

Well, here are the instructions on how to do it for Windows XP/Vista/7, not sure if it still applies to 8 or not http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-...ve-in-windows/ Although doing it through windows, you're going to lose your data when you resize partitions. To avoid that you'll...

This probably won't be a very popular sentiment...but if you can't pay for your own wedding, you shouldn't get married. There is no reason that two broke 18 year olds with no education or decent jobs should get married and have their parents waste 10s of thousands of dollars on it. Money...

Right, things like Skype, or any media player(VLC, Windows Media, etc) will have its own setting on where you want the sound to go. I change the default when I just want *everything* to switch from speakers to headphones(when the wife is asleep, don't need the sub & speakers going nuts right...

Your actual loan payment may not go up over 30 years, but your insurance and property taxes assuredly will. Homeowners insurance rates are raising pretty drastically with most major companies across the US over the last couple years. Natural disasters, storms, and just generally volatile...

Or rather than unplugging, on most versions of windows you can right-click the sound/speaker icon in your taskbar and get into some sound properties where you can change the default sound device. I do this quite often when switching default sound from my speakers to my headset and back, without...

Check your device manager, you should have an ATI or "HD Audio Device" listed under the sound adapter listings alongside your normal onboard audio. If it is indeed listed as either an unknown or only as a High Definition Device... you must install the latest ATI drivers and ensure the sound...

I run a watercooled Corsair H100i, and I used their stock thermal paste. Here's my computer basically idling(just web browsing, downloading torrents, skype running, steam running, etc. No games) Averages about 25 degrees C Heres my PC while running Prime 95 for about 20 minutes. It...

Crank that CPU up to a 42 multiplier or so. Should be able to reach that easily without jacking with the voltage at all. You can probably go higher with that 212 Evo cooler if you want to start messing with the voltage. At the very least, go to 4200mhz, i've rarely seen a 3570k processor that...